It is about taking the power from a disgusting and degrading word and turning it back around on the accuser.
These findings confirm that the ATL atrophy in SD disrupts phonological processing for semantically degraded words but leaves the phonological architecture intact.
We have let the torch of populism be extinguished by those who pervert and degrade words like 'freedom' to protect the ever-amplifying noise of corporate clout.
Pruning of connections initially improved detection rates of phonetically degraded words.
There is also evidence that patients with Broca's aphasia are impaired in recognition of auditory words that are degraded, although their performance is at ceiling in recognition of non-degraded words (Moineau, Dronkers, & Bates, 2005).
Assuming the government succeeds in its stated intention of "deterring and degrading" — Kerry's words — Bashar al-Assad's ability to use chemical weapons, which presumably means blowing to smithereens much of his Air Force, missile systems, and command-and-control facilities, what happens next?
But he told Esquire he objected to the word "abortionist" because it has become a "degrading and demeaning word that has the same negative connotations as the most despicable racial epithet".
"Just the feeling that you had to do this was kind of -- I don't want to say the word degrading, because that's not it -- but sad but necessary," he said.
Hammer thrived on the savage appraisals of reviewers who used words like "degrading" and "nauseating" to describe the generous helpings of lewdness and gore.
